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A TEMPLE 

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At the base of the precipice of Stone Moun- 
tain, below the central group of sculpture, will 
be located the great Memorial Hall, dedicated to 
the women of the Southern Confederacy. 

Augustus Lukeman was engaged as the Sculp- 
tor of the Stone Mountain Memorial in April. 
1925. In less than twelve months he had 
created not only a magnificent design for the 
central group of sculpture, representing the Con- 
federate High Command, but also a Memorial 
Hall plan complete in every detail, which some 
of the highest authorities in America have pro- 
nounced a masterpiece of architecture. 

To produce in that length of time two de- 
signs of such magnitude, the one a work of 
sculpture and the other a combination of sculp- 
ture and architecture, was a monumental 
achievement, demonstrating that he is an artist 
of extraordinary creative power. 

Memorial Hall will not be a structure built 
stone upon stone, but a vast semi-circular cham- 
ber hollowed out of solid rock; ninety-five feet 
wide, fifty feet deep and fifty feet high; every 
detail of architecture and sculpture carved out 
of the living stone: the most enduring and beau- 
tiful shrine of the ages; a temple of sacred mem- 
ories in the breast of a granite mountain. 

Guarding the entrance will stand six Doric 
columns carved out of the face of the mountain: 
forty-one feet high, seven and one-half feet in 
diameter, and thirteen feet apart; the largest 
monoliths in the world; each of which, if dis- 
engaged, would weigh one hundred and fifty 
tons. 

Sweeping across the top of the colonnade, an 
entablature made by dressing down the face of 
the mountain will contain an inscription in six 
ancient and modern languages, cut into the 
granite. 

In the center of Memorial Hall an immense 
block of undetached granite, formed by cutting 
away the floor around it, will be carved into a 
seated female figure, heavily veiled, symbolizing 
the "Memories" of the women of the Confed- 
eracy — their patient endurance of privation and 



toil: their unmeasured sacrifice: their fortitude 
in defeat; their unconquerable spirit in recon- 
struction. 

This figure will be larger than the marble 
statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Me- 
morial in Washington. In the course of centu- 
ries the majestic and beautiful temple which 
shelters Lincoln may perish away to a gaunt 
white skeleton, as the Parthenon has perished; 
and eventually even the statue may fall to pieces. 
But here in the breast of Stone Mountain this 
figure symbolizing the devotion of Southern 
women to the cause they espoused will be shel- 
tered forever from the ruthless hand of Time, 
fed with perpetual life from the life of the moun- 
tain, enduring as long as the mountain endures. 

Around the interior will be carved thirteen 
engaged columns of the Ionic order thirty feet 
high. The space between each pair of columns 
will be dressed down to make a panel, eight feet 
wide and twenty-five feet high. Each will be 
dedicated to a State of the Confederacy, and the 
name of the State will be cut into the granite 
above the panel, and the coat-of-arms will be 
inlaid in golden bronze in the floor in front of 
the panel. At the base of each panel will be ex- 
cavated a vault, in which will be deposited for 
perpetual safe-keeping a duplicate of the Con- 
federate roster of the State to which that panel 
is dedicated. Across the bases of the panels and 
columns will be carved a continuous garland of 
flowers. 

Here in the magnificent setting of these pan- 
els, in letters cut into the granite and inlaid with 
gold leaf, will be inscribed the names of the 
Founders Roll, grouped according to States. 

Memorial Hall will be approached by two 
majestic flights of granite stairs, the first a flight 
of thirteen steps, each named for a State of the 
Confederacy, and the second a flight of forty- 
eight steps, each named for a State of the Union. 
The second flight will be flanked on either side 
by a granite pier, twenty-five feet high and 
eight feet thick, terminating in an engaged ped- 
estal surmounted by a bronze urn fourteen feet 
long and eight feet wide, in which incense will 
be burned on ceremonial occasions. 



In front of the grand stairway will spread a 
plaza, at each end of which will be a mast sev- 
enty-five feet high, one surmounted by an 
American flag and the other by a Confederate 
flag. From each side of the plaza a walk will 
lead into the little forest which grows at the 
foot of the mountain. 

In front of the plaza a lagoon or mirror 
lake, three hundred feet long and one hundred 
and twenty-five feet wide, will reflect the classic 
colonnade of Memorial Hall and the stupendous 
figures carved on the mountain. The lagoon 
will be surrounded on four sides by a wide 
esplanade, on the right and left boundaries of 
which will be a formal planting of trees. 

At the head of the lagoon the water will 
disappear under a granite embankment, creating 
the illusion that it might be flowing from a 
hidden spring in the heart of the mountain. In 
the center of the embankment a great granite 
sarcophagus or tomb will contain the dust of an 
unknown Confederate soldier, and on top of 
the tomb will rest a bronze recumbent figure of 
a Confederate soldier wrapped in a Confeder- 
ate flag. 

The lagoon will be approached through a 
gateway forty feet wide, flanked by two pylons, 
each consisting of a cluster of three granite col- 
umns twenty feet high. At each outside cor- 
ner of the esplanade will be a granite building, 
connected with the gateway by a low granite 
wall. 

On the steps and esplanade surrounding the 
lagoon can be assembled an audience of fifteen 
to twenty thousand people. A band or orches- 
tra playing at the top of the grand stairway can 
be perfectly heard throughout the whole area 
of the approach to Memorial Hall, and even 
the voice of a singer can be distinctly heard, as 
the shape of the mountain forms a gigantic am- 
plifier. 

The Founders Roll is composed of individ- 
uals, family groups, organizations, firms or cor- 
porations contributing $1,000 each to the gen- 
eral cost of the Stone Mountain Memorial. 

The name of each member of the Founders 
Roll will be inscribed in a panel in Memorial 



Hall, described above, together with the name 
of the Confederate soldier or Confederate mili- 
tary unit in whose memory the contribution 
was made. 

The history of commemorative inscriptions, 
going back to remote antiquity, shows that 
those which survived were the ones cut in stone. 
Probably the most important single inscription 
of all ages was the record engraved upon the 
Behistun Rock by King Darius, which furnished 
a key to the translation of several dead lan- 
guages and opened to archaeologists a vast realm 
of buried history. Inscriptions in bronze and 
even great statues in bronze have usually dis- 
appeared in the changing tides of Destiny that 
sweep away nations and civilizations as the cen- 
turies roll on. 

Founders Roll inscriptions in bronze in Stone 
Mountain Memorial Hall might be sacrificed to 
military necessity or taken away by an invad- 
ing army in some distant future: but when en- 
graved in granite they will furnish no sacrifice 
to the exigencies of war and offer no prize to be 
looted by vandals. 

No people in history have inherited more to 
make them proud of their ancestry than the 
descendants of Confederate soldiers, and none 
have been given such an opportunity as is here 
presented to perpetuate a glorious tradition. 

Those who carve in Stone Mountain Memo- 
rial Hall the names of sires who wore the Gray 
will hand down to their children an inher- 
itance infinitely richer than gold and enduring 
through endless generations. 

Only a limited number may avail themselves 
of the privilege, since the space in each panel 
will permit of the carving of only a limited 
number of inscriptions. 

Already a large number of spaces in the 
Georgia panel have been taken, and the other 
Southern States are well represented. 

The Association invites correspondence with 
descendants of Confederate soldiers who feel the 
appeal of this opportunity, not only to perpet- 
uate the names and deeds of their forefathers, 
but to participate conspicuously in the most glo- 
rious enterprise of human history. 



lb. Mountain, speak your mesH^gi 
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uTap you. let the stars that train above 
your Inmmif'': signal to America: 'The 
anfu 'op guard.' When the 

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tic fuLv, :>■'! an /OT(|j):5fiy' Lee is weep- 
ing for th^' sortdp^l'tMha people.' When 
the sun ' of wofiri/nfl !|ji|jjlij;es alona ui-.iir 
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cihle light \' Let no wina'fify'mj' 
yoi,ir tips of sto.ne hat, mo&t'fi'g 
the, music of an undying hirnedii,ti^'. 
And when ai last through cosmic VyfU^ 
grain by gtalr: aou become a l:irother:tK 
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